TITAN

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A picture of titans sky
Moon's of Saturn

Saturn has 53 known moons including Titan. Titan is 1,221,850 Kilometers but is still pulled in by saturns gravety. Saturn has proboly the most things orbiting it exept for the sun (in our Solar System)

Titan Moon Of Saturn


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Comparison of Earth, Our Moon, and Titan
Titan is the larest of saturns moons. it was discoverd in 1655 by Christan Huygens. Titan like our moon has sycronice rotation. In 1980 the Voyager (not from starstek) took pictures of the surface of titan. form this information we found out that it gets to -178*C and there are dark channels on its surface.



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Prob landing on Titan



Quick Facts
  • The moon titan is the largest of saturns moons, the second largest in our solar system, and larger than the planet mercury.
  • It was named after the childern of Mother Earth and Father Sky in greek Mythology.
  • At times the temp on Titan gets to -178*c.
  • It was discoverd in 1655 by Christion Huygens.
  • Titan has 52 known siblings


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Titan is the gineral name for the parents of the greek gods


Titan Statistics
Discovered by
Christiaan Huygens
Date of discovery
1655
Mass (kg)
1.35e+23
Mass (Earth = 1)
2.2590e-02
Equatorial radius (km)
2,575
Equatorial radius (Earth = 1)
4.0373e-01
Mean density (gm/cm^3)
1.88
Mean distance from Saturn (km)
1,221,850
Rotational period (days)
15.94542
Orbital period (days)
15.94542
Mean orbital velocity (km/sec)
5.58
Orbital eccentricity
0.0292
Orbital inclination (degrees)
0.33
Escape velocity (km/sec)
2.65
Visual geometric albedo
0.21
Magnitude (Vo)
8.28
Mean surface temperature
-178°C
Atmospheric pressure (bars)
1.5
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Moon caparison















Other webpages
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/titan.htm
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Titan


Bibliographical Info.

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Titan
Worldbook 2007 book T